This week, Symfony 2.1.8 maintainance version was released. Meanwhile, Symfony 2.2 fixed some bugs related to the sub-request locale management and the HInclude renderer, in preparation for its upcoming release, scheduled for the next week.

This week, the development activity of the main Symfony2 branches was very intense. In Symfony 2.2 branch, a new BCrypt password encoder was added and some fixes were made for the Request::create() method and the BinaryFileResponse. Meanwhile, the master branch added support for the X-Forwarded-For header.

This week, the oficial Symfony2 repository surpassed the 2,000th fork milestone. Meanwhile, the stabilization of the Symfony 2.2 version continues in the newly created 2.2 branch. In addition, a new SymfonyCon Europe conference was announced for this year.